Wynonna Ellen Judd, born Christina Claire Ciminella (May 30, 1964) is a multi award-winning American country music singer.
She is one of America's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s.
Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the single name Wynonna.
She first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother Naomi in the country music duo the Judds. They released seven albums on Curb Records in addition to 26 singles, of which 14 were number-one hits.
The Judds disbanded in 1991 and Wynonna began a solo career, also on Curb. In her solo career, she has released eight studio albums, a live album, a holiday album, and two compilation albums, in addition to more than 20 singles.
Her first three singles were She Is His Only Need, I Saw the Light, and No One Else on Earth. All three reached number one on the U.S. country singles charts consecutively, and To Be Loved by You also hit number one in 1996, her fourth number one and top ten hit. Three of her albums are certified platinum or higher by the RIAA.
Her most recent recording was Wynonna & the Big Noise, released on February 12, 2016, and she released the single Cool Ya' that same month.
Wynonna is most recognized for her musical work, although she has also pursued other interests starting in the 2000s, including writing, acting, and philanthropy.
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Wynonna was born Christina Claire Ciminella in Ashland, Kentucky, on May 30, 1964. She was given the last name Ciminella after Michael Ciminella, the man her mother quickly married after being abandoned by her boyfriend and Judd's biological father, Charles Jordan, who died in 2000.
Her younger half-sister is actress Ashley Judd. Naomi and Ciminella moved with the girls to Los Angeles in 1968 but were divorced by 1972.
By 1976, Wynonna and Naomi were living in Kentucky, where Wynonna took inspiration from the country music that her mother listened to and learned to play guitar after receiving one for Christmas. The two of them moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1979 in pursuit of a musical career.
Wynonna and Naomi were signed to RCA Records in 1983 as the duo the Judds.
On January 27, 1992, Wynonna performed solo on television for the first time at the American Music Awards. She unveiled She Is His Only Need, the first single from her self-titled solo debut album. This album, Wynonna, was released in 1992 via MCA/Curb, under the production of Tony Brown.
She Is His Only Need went to number one on the Billboard country singles charts that year, as did the album's next three singles, I Saw the Light and My Strongest Weakness. No One Else on Earth, was also the number one country song of 1992 according to Billboard Year-End.
She Is His Only Need and No One Else on Earth were also minor Adult Contemporary hits, and the latter peaked at No. 83 on the Billboard Hot 100. My Strongest Weakness, the album's final single, was a No. 4 country hit. The album shipped five million copies in the United States, earning a 5× Multi-Platinum certification from the RIAA.
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Her second album, Tell Me Why, was released by MCA/Curb in 1993. Also, a platinum-selling album, it accounted for five consecutive Top Ten hits on the country charts: the title track, Only Love, Is It Over Yet, Rock Bottom, and Girls with Guitars, which was written by Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Tell Me Why was her third crossover hit, peaking at No. 77 on the pop charts and No. 24 on the Adult Contemporary charts. Between Tell Me Why and Only Love, she sang guest vocals on Clint Black's 1993 single A Bad Goodbye, from the album No Time to Kill, which became her biggest pop hit at No. 43. The success of this song led to a tour called the Black & Wy tour, featuring Black and Wynonna as headliners.
In 1994, she also made an appearance on the Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute album Skynyrd Frynds, on which she covered their song Free Bird. She also sang duet vocals on pop-Christian singer Michael English's debut single, Healing, which peaked at No. 120 on the pop charts.
After Girls with Guitars fell from the charts, Wynonna became the subject of negative publicity, as she had a child out of wedlock.
She was absent from the country charts for all of 1995. In 1996, she married Arch Kelly, the father of her daughter and son.
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Revelations was the title of her third album, released by MCA/Curb in 1996.
Also certified platinum, this album was led off by her fourth and final number one hit, the Mike Reid/Gary Burr co-written To Be Loved by You. Despite this song's minor Adult Contemporary success, the album's other three singles did not fare as well.
Wynonna's fourth and final album for MCA was titled The Other Side. Unlike her previous country pop-oriented albums, this album focused on a more blues and rock sound. It was released in 1997 and produced four singles. The album did not sell as well as her first three, however, only earning a gold certification.
Its singles were not as successful on the charts, either: although When Love Starts Talkin' and Come Some Rainy Day reached No. 13 and No. 14, respectively, Always Will fell short of Top 40 and Love Like That became the first single of her career not to chart at all. After the release of the greatest hits album called Collection, Wynonna left MCA in favor of Mercury Records.
In 1999, Wynonna decided to reunite with her mother for a tour beginning on New Year's Eve. A month later, Wynonna released her fifth solo album, New Day Dawning. This album, the first of her career that Wynonna co-produced, included a four-song bonus disc entitled Big Bang Boogie composed of four new Judds songs.
What the World Needs Now Is Love, her sixth studio album, was released in August 2003, on Curb records.
Lead-off single What the World Needs reached the Top 15 on the country charts, followed by the lesser singles Heaven Help Me and Flies on the Butter (You Can't Go Home Again), at No. 37 and No. 33 respectively.
This latter song, originally recorded by Lari White on her album Stepping Stone, featured backing vocals from Naomi, and was credited on the charts as Wynonna with Naomi Judd instead of The Judds.
Judd had success on the Hot Dance Airplay charts with a cover of Foreigner's I Want to Know What Love Is. Her rendition peaked at No. 12 on that chart in 2005. Also included on What the World Needs Now Is Love were two songs from soundtracks: a cover of the Elvis Presley hit Burning Love, which Wynonna recorded for the animated film Lilo & Stitch, and You Are, co-written by Judd, which was included in the film Someone Like You, a film starring half-sister Ashley Judd.
Her second release for Asylum-Curb was a live CD/DVD package called Her Story: Scenes from a Lifetime, released in 2005 which was concurrently released by with her best-selling autobiography, Coming Home to Myself. The album included one new studio track, Attitude.
Written by Wynonna and John Rich of Big & Rich, this song was issued as a single, peaking at No. 40 on the country charts. That same year she released her first solo Christmas album called A Classic Christmas that included a Latin version of Ave Maria. She also sang an overdubbed duet with Elvis Presley on the late 2008 RCA album Christmas Duets.
Sing: Chapter 1, her first studio album in six years, was released on February 3, 2009 on Curb Records. This album is largely composed of cover songs, except for the title track, an original composition by Rodney Crowell. It also reunites her with producers Brent Maher and Don Potter, who produced all the Judds' 1980s albums.
This album's lead-off single is I Hear You Knocking,
a blues standard first recorded by Smiley Lewis. On May 9, 2009 a
seven-song EP containing dance remixes of the title track was released.
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On September 14, 2010, the Judds appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show where Wynonna discussed her recent weight loss, her year of living dangerously and what it's like going back on stage as part of the iconic duo, the Judds.
The Judds also performed their new single I Will Stand By You, released October 4, 2010. I Will Stand By You was released as the title track to the Judd's 2011 Greatest Hits collection, I Will Stand by You: The Essential Collection.
In 2011, the New York Times bestselling author released her first novel, Restless Heart.
A new single, Love It Out Loud was released in May 2011. On November 27, 2011 Wynonna debuted her new band Wynonna & The Big Noise in Nashville, TN at 3rd and Lindsley.
In March 2013 Wynonna released Something You Can't Live Without, the first single off her forthcoming full-length album, produced by her husband/drummer Cactus Moser and set for release 2013 on Curb Records. This album -her first with all new material in over four years-was recorded in her own home studio and is deeply personal, especially noting the life-changing events the couple experienced in 2012.
Judd released a new studio album, Wynonna & the Big Noise, on February 12, 2016. The album produced Two singles Jesus And A Jukebox and Things I Lean On.
In October 2020, Wynonna released a new extended play titled Recollections via Anti Records.
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